LANSING (AP) - Michigan had the country's fifth-highest rate of new COVID-19 cases in the last week and is among 14 states where infections rose over the past two weeks, a trend that may be tied to the increasing prevalence of a more contagious coronavirus variant, health officials said Wednesday.
One out of every 602 Michigan residents was diagnosed with COVID-19 over the seven-day period that ended Monday - a rate that trailed those of only four East Coast states.
Michigan had the country's 10th-highest per-capita case rate over the 14-day period that ended Monday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University researchers.
The seven-day case average was 2,372, an increase of more than 1,000 from the 1,335 seven-day average as of March 1. The average positivity rate, 6.4 percent, was 3.8 percent two weeks ago.
Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, the state's chief medical executive, said Michigan is in a "different place" than earlier in the pandemic because of vaccinations, but she warned that herd immunity is still quite some distance away. At least 25 percent of state residents ages 16 and older had received at least one dose of vaccine.
Coronavirus-related hospitalizations have increased over the last three weeks but are well below the peak from over three months ago. More than 60 percent of people ages 65 and older - those more at risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 - have gotten at least one vaccine dose.
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